DR. WILLIAM H. WELCH, DR. WILLIAM S. HALSTED, DR. WILLIAM OSLER AND Professors of Pathology. of Surgery. of Medicine and of Gynecology from the opening of the Medical School of the Johns Hopkins University in 1893 until the painting of this portrait in 1905, to whose eminence as investigators and teachers is due in great measure its fame as a School of Scientific Medicine. Presented by MARY ELIZABETH GARRETT to the JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY Painted by Sargent. Courtesy of Current Literature Publishing Company. THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BENEATH THE YOKE OF THEIR OPPRESSORS-BOSTON LIBRARY "The panels are full of dignity and beauty. Their significance, both as decoration and allusion, is progressive, passing from the serene simplicity and tempered realism of the prophets through the mingling of human tragedy and symbolism in the misery of the apostate Jews, up to the bewilderment of beauty and horror in the representation of the tangle of false faiths." "On behalf of the trustees of the university I have much pleasure in accepting this splendid gift. * * It will be a reminder of the services rendered to the Medical DELINEATION "How shall one describe the method of John Sargent? It reveals the alertness and versatility of the American tem* In Courtesy of Doubleday, Page & Co. perament. *** "Duran taught Sargent, above all things, to keep his eye on the object when he was painting-to make sure of his facts. But it is important to remember that the pupil had latent in his brain and hand all that the master could teach him-all, and a great deal more. It was natural for him to see clearly and draw truthfully."--Cortissoz. School by the four men The Most Talented Portrait Painter in the World. who are represented, and it will be an influence for good to the country at large, for, as a great work of art, it is of value, independently of all other considerations."President Remsen. MEDICAL ITEMS 79. Medical Items. BALTIMORE. DR. JOHN C. HEMMETER presented to the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, on December 31, a life-sized marble bust of Rudolph Virchow, and made an address on "Rudolph Virchow as an Anthropologist." THE police department of Baltimore city has been very active of late in suppressing the spitting nuisance in street cars and public buildings and on the sidewalks. A large number of arrests have been made, and in nearly all the cases fines have been imposed. It is most unpleasant, but necessary, to remark that medical students are, as a class, very promiscuous spitters. ON January 3 the trustees of Johns Hopkins University formally accepted the two collections of medical books presented to the library of the Medical School by Mr. Marburg and Mr. Jenks. The gift of Mr. Marburg includes the Warrington Dispensary Library of Liverpool, numbering 944 volumes, of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. The gift of Mr. Jenks is the Friederich Ahlfeld Library of Marburg, Germany, and numbers 936 volumes. These are mostly on the subject of teratology. The presentation was made in the hall of the Physiological Building. Addresses were made by Dr. Wm. H. Welch and Dr. William Osler. ON January 19 Sargent's portrait group of Drs. Wm. H. Welch, Wm. S. Halsted, Howard A. Kelly and William Osler was formally presented by Miss Mary Garrett to the trustees of Johns Hopkins University. The exercises were held in McCoy Hall in the presence of a large assembly. Miss Garrett made the presentation in a short address, expressing high appreciation of the work of the four first professors of the medical faculty. President Remsen accepted the gift in the name of the trustees. Dr. Wm. H. Welch gave a highly entertaining talk on his experience as a sitter. Mr. Royal Cortissoz made an address on the art of John S. Sargent. THE Social Service Club has started a movement to call a State Conference of Charities in April. This was done at a meeting held on January 25 at the home of Dr. D. C. Gilman in Baltimore. The organizations joined in the undertaking are, besides the Social Service Club, the State Federation of Woman's Clubs, German Society, Federated Charities, Federated Jewish Charities, Board of Education, Supervisors of City Charities, Thomas Wilson Sanatorium, Maryland Association for the Prevention and Relief of Tuberculosis and the Children's Playground Association. The officers are Mr. John M. Glenn, president; secretaries, Mr. H. Wirt Steele, Mr. N. G. Grasty, Miss Spencer and Dr. Marshall L. Price; treasurer, Mr. Waldo Newcomer. ON January 22 the regents, faculties and alumni of the University of Maryland held a mass-meeting in the Germania Maennerchor Hall, the object being to prepare for the coming celebration of the University's centennial. The presiding officer was Dr. Henry M. Wilson of the class of 1850. Addresses were made by Drs. John C. Hemmeter, Hampson H. Biedler, Samuel C. Chew, F. J. S. Gorgas and Charles Caspari, Jr., on the parts of the faculties of medicine, dentistry and pharmacy and of the alumni. Hon. John P. Poe made an address on the part of the faculty of law, and Dr. Thomas Fell on the part of the School of Arts and Sciences. The endowment fund was increased during the evening by subscriptions amounting to $7000. MARYLAND. LATE in December Dr. Simpers, health officer for Kent county, reported one case of smallpox in Sandy Bottom, and the diagnosis was confirmed by the State Board of Health. This case was said to have originated from an earlier case, that of a colored schoolteacher who passed through his attack without medical attendance. He attended to his school duties while in the eruptive stage. In January other cases were discovered in the neighborhood of Edesville and Rock Hall. These cases had been diagnosed by two local physicians as cases of chicken-pox. At the request of the county health officer the State Board of Health made an investigation. Six cases of smallpox were seen, two doubtful cases and a considerable number of convalescents, mostly negroes, who had probably passed through smallpox within the preceding three months. Dr. S. Wickes Merritt was appointed by the county Board of Health as special medical officer for the smallpox outbreak. A number of citizens of Rock Hall, feeling their community slandered by the information that smallpox was present in the neighborhood, published a signed statement in the Baltimore Sun, giving reasons for their belief that there was no smallpox in their neigh |